>> Hi everyone! >> >> I have found myself in the following situation several times: I >> created a wiki for some event or small project, everything works fine >> and after the event or project was done - nobody have seen this wiki >> for several months and does nothing on it. After several months >> somebody needs the wiki once again and realizes that the wiki database >> now have 3 Gb of text spam. Suppose that there is no back-up or >> rollback option in a wiki hosting. So here is the question: how to >> > >No backups, no way to roolback to a date? thats bad. >You could start a wiki from scratch, copy manually from the old one >whatever was good. Maybe share this task with a few selected >voluntaries. >Start the new one without anonymous edits, a sexy theme and a huge >campaign to attract people. "No like the old wiki!, this is actually >good and maintaned!". >Maybe the lack of maintenance contributed to the decay. I wonder if a >wiki without enough contributors is worth existing, like a garden >without anyone to cut the grass.
Certainly. If for no other reason than the historical value. We still keep all the Wikimania wikis around. Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
